Prayers for us - PLEASE!

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I didn’t catch the exact location but I don’t believe it was in NO proper. I think it was a nearby parish. I’m now watching live streaming video from WWL ch. 4 NO - wwltv.com/

Oh - found the info. Guess there’s a reason for the rule about linking the actual story to our post. I had the details wrong. Guess that’s what happens when one reads and listens to audio. 😦

Here’s the news release:
wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL082805nursinghome.3b14b23.html

Apparently, the deceased are 3 residents of a NO nursing home who perished on the way to evacuation to Baton Rouge. Lord have mercy.
 
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Edwin1961:
Lisa,
Have the environment wackos start blaming ‘global warming’ on this hurricane yet?
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Not yet but they will:nope:
 
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Jennifer123:
I didn’t catch the exact location but I don’t believe it was in NO proper. I think it was a nearby parish. I’m now watching live streaming video from WWL ch. 4 NO - wwltv.com/

Oh - found the info. Guess there’s a reason for the rule about linking the actual story to our post. I had the details wrong. Guess that’s what happens when one reads and listens to audio. 😦

Here’s the news release:
wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL082805nursinghome.3b14b23.html

Apparently, the deceased are 3 residents of a NO nursing home who perished on the way to evacuation to Baton Rouge. Lord have mercy.
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I’m waiting to post a weather update in a few minutes. I do know that extreme SE Louisana is experiencing hurricane force winds as I type this.
 
Good night everyone. May you in the path of this storm take refuge and receive refuge in His grace and in Our Mother’s mantle.
 
can’t seem to sleep, so I have the weather channel on, praying with you all night long.
 
Tuesday morning…

DianJo, please post as soon as you return!!

We are all praying for you and for everybody all along the coast.

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I am praying for you Dian Jo…hang in there…you and yours are in my prayers.
 
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dumspirospero:
I am praying for you Dian Jo…hang in there…you and yours are in my prayers.
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Oh D …so glad to hear from you…such a terrible situation…

I’m praying for all…
 
Thank you so much…and God Bless you…it is good to hear from you as well. This is one of those situations where you sit back, reflect, and truly thank God for what you do have…God Bless you, Sonny
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aimee:
Oh D …so glad to hear from you…such a terrible situation…

I’m praying for all…
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if you go to www.wlox.com you can see some aerial footage of the devastation. To those of you familiar with the area , it’s unrecognizable. I was able to orient myself when I saw the coliseum.

I have friends who swam out of their houses, some retreated to the attic, others just had their homes smashed to pieces. Bascially, everything south of the RR tracks is gone.

I still have not contacted my brother but am anxious to.
I hope he’s OK.
 
WOW!!! To Everyone who prayed for us all in the path of this horrible storm - THANK YOU!

Your prayers worked! At least for me and my family! We thought we were goners in Hattiesburg and Hattiesburg is 50 miles from the coast! We weren’t sure if we would be killed by falling trees or taken by flood waters! I went so far as to put my drivers license in my pocket - just in case! Morbib, huh? We spent the better part of 2 hours huddled in my son’s kitchen - 5 people and 4 animals - with our heads covered. All I could think was, “What are the people on the coast going through?” I have never been so scared in my whole life!

We found out Tuesday night that we had a house! We were afraid that the storm would take it from us! There were trees on top but none put any holes in the roof. There was water damage, not from flood but from blowing rain! There water marks on the walls and my wood floors are warped. My damage is pretty minor, comparatively! My car was nearly destroyed when a tree fell on my car and my son’s truck - cut it straight in half!

All of the necesssities have been fully restored. I just got my cable and internet access Friday - whoo-hoo!!! Things will not be normal here for a very long time! It’s so strange to live in a place where everything you know and love has been completely destroyed. My church parish, rectory, parish life center, elementary school and gym are decimated along with many other parishes here. Plans are already in the works to rebulid - right where it stood before Katrina! We are a defiant people!!! Yeah!!

I could go on for days about all the things and people and how everyone here is working together to help one another - but y’all know what I’m talking about! Oh - one good thing I do have to tell you - Our parish if holding Mass in the Grace Lutheran Chruch here in Long Beach! It’s a little different. It’s quite funny to watch people try to figure out if they are supposed to genuflect or not when entering the pews!!! Look for the candle, I tell them! Oh - and there are no kneelers!! Ugh! Why don’t protestants kneel before God? I’ll never understand!

Anyway, thanks again for all the prayers but keep praying, we still need the strength and fortitude to endure these future trials!
God bless you all!!!

Diana
 
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